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>From any husband except of his choosing. He took a seat under an old
apple tree, and, musing in the twilight, tried in vain to think of ways
and means of making her acquaintance. Meantime they passed each other as
strangers, and the difficulty of approaching her only made the task more
alluring. In the second week he reckoned up that he had seen her nine
times. It was a satisfactory total, but at the same time he could not
shut his eyes to the fact that five times out of that number he had seen
Dr. Murchison as well, and neither of them appeared to have seen him. He
sat thinking it over in the office one hot afternoon. Mr. Adolphus
Swann, his partner, had just returned from lunch, and for about the
fifth time that day was arranging his white hair and short, neatly
pointed beard in a small looking-glass. Over the top of it he glanced at
Hardy, who, leaning back in his chair, bit his pen and stared hard at a
paper before him. "Is that the manifest of the North Star?" he inquired.
"No," was the reply. Mr. Swann put his looking-glass away and watched
the other as he crossed over to the window and gazed through the small,
dirty panes at the bustling life of the harbour below. For a short time
Hardy stood gazing in silence, and then, suddenly crossing the room,
took his hat from a peg and went out. "Restless," said the senior
partner, wiping his folders with great care an